Saturday, 17 November 2012
Arsenic and Old Lace Cast and Crew
Arsenic and Old Lace Cast :
Jean Adair (Martha Brewster)
John Alexander (Teddy Brewster)
Wyrley Birch (The Rev. Dr. Harper)
Helen Brooks (Elaine Harper)
Bruce Gordon (Officer Klein)
Henry Herbert (Mr. Gibbs)
Josephine Hull (Abby Brewster)
Allyn Joslyn (Mortimer Brewster)
Boris Karloff (Jonathan Brewster)
William Parke (Mr. Witherspoon)
John Quigg (Officer Brophy)
Anthony Ross (Officer O'Hara)
Edgar Stehli (Dr. Einstein)
Victor Sutherland (Lieutenant Rooney)
Arsenic and Old Lace Review
The contemporary critical reviews were uniformly positive. The New York Times critic summed up the majority view, "As a whole, Arsenic and Old Lace, the Warner picture which came to the Strand yesterday, is good macabre fun." Variety declared, "Capra's production, not elaborate, captures the color and spirit of the play, while the able writing team of Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein has turned in a very workable, tightly-compressed script. Capra's own intelligent direction rounds out."Twenty-four years after the film was released, Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg wrote Hollywood in the Forties where they stated that "Frank Capra provided a rather overstated and strained version of Arsenic and Old Lace"
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